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TYPE DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS; I No. 531,531.. Patnted'Dec. 25, 1894.

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CHARLES F. HILD-ER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,531, dated December25, 1894.

Application filed June 19, 1894. Serial No. 515,038. (No model.)Patented in England July 29, 1893. No. 14,624.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, CHARLES FREDERICKHILDER, a citizen of England, residing at 28 tirays Inn Chambers,Holborn, London, England,have invented a new anduseful Improvement inType-Distributing Apparatus, (for which I have obtained Letters PatentinGreat Britain, No. 14,624, dated July 29, 1893,) of which the followingis a specification.

In the specification to mypatent dated April 3, 1894, No. 517,802,describing apparatus for distributing types, I provided for separationof space types by removing a lower stop from the end of a separated lineof types and so allowing space types to be pushed out under an upperstop which prevents the higher character types from being pushed out.ing to my present invention I dispense with this arrangement of stopsand with the key for working the lower stop, and I effect the separationof the space types as I shall describe referring to the accompanyingdrawings.

Figure 1 is an enlarged view of the gate B and adjoining parts shown inFig. 1 of the specification No. 517,802 above referred to, withmodifications according to my present in vention. Fig. 2 is a side viewof the vertical guide B on the left of the gate. Fig. 3 is a transversesection of the gate Bin its raised position, and Fig. 4 is a transversesection when the gate is lowered and folded on its hinge to deliverspace types.

I make the gate in three parts in height, the uppermost part B havinghinged to it the two lower parts B B which are connected together byslid-es and guides g so that they can be slid a little apart from eachother as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 or slide close together as shown in Fig.4:. In these two parts B B is formed the recess into which, as describedin the previous specification is pushed the foremost line of the form Athat is to be broken up. The top and bottom of the recess are undercut,as shown, behind projecting lips which are sloped in front.

When the gate is raised, as shown in Fig. 3, the part B is separatedfrom B so that the distance between the lips is a little more than typeheight, allowing the types to enter the recess, in which they-drop tillthey rest on its Accordbottom. With the character types '1, the spacetypes S, which happen to be in the line,

also enter the recess.

When the gate is lowered.so that the part B rests on the bottom platethe two parts B B are brought close together and then folded back ontheir hinge as shown in Fig. 4. The character types T' being held atthetop and the bottom remain in the recess, but the shorter space typesS, not being held at the top, fallout. After they have fallen, the partsB B are moved back toQtheir verticalposition, and then the charactertypes remaining in the recess are separated into their respective casesby the action of finger keys as described in my previous specification.

In order to prevent the parts B B from separating while they areinclined to drop the space types, I fix on the side guide B a shield Hand'to one of the guides g I attach a pin h which when the gate israised and lowered vertically travels along a straight path 71. formedin the shield H, and, when the lower parts of the gate are folded backas in Fig. 4, this pin travels along the curve h which is the arc of acircle struck from the axis of the hinge as a center.

In Fig. 1 of my previous specification the pulley b carrying theweighted cord for actuating the pusher b was shown to the right of thegate. According to my new arrangement, I place it to the left of thegate, where it can be more easily accommodated clear of the typeseparating mechanism.

As the forms to be distributed may be of various widths, I prefer tomake the gate B sufficiently wide to receive the longest line of typethat is to be pushed'into its recess, with a little freedom so that theyare not tightly packed therein. For a line of less length, a

side piece may be fixed at the left hand end of the recess so as toallow between it and the righthand end a little more than the length ofthe line.

Having thus described the nature of this invention and the best means Iknow for carrying the same into practical efiect, I claim- In a typedistributing apparatus, the com-- bination with the upper gate sectionB, of the lower gate section B hinged thereto and pro- Ice vided with aslidable section B the lower two subscribing witnesses, this 6th day ofsection and the slidable section having: lipped June, A. D. 1894.recesses to receive a type, and means whereby v 1 V the slidable sectionis moved to hold and. re- CHARLES HILDER' 5 tein character types only,substantially as Witnesses:

and for the purposes described. GEO. J. B. FRANKLIN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my WALTER J. KERTEN, name to thisspecification, in the presence of Both 0fl7 Gracechurch Street, London,E. C.

